by Véronique Ovaldé · J'ai Lu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782277024316
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«Personne n'a peur des gens qui sourient» is the psychological thriller by Véronique Ovaldé, published by J'ai Lu in paperback (254 pages, in French).
A mother decides to flee with her daughters and take refuge in the house of her childhood, on the coast. There, among memories and secrets of the past, tension grows as she tries to protect her own and confronts her own demons; the story explores the limits of maternal protection and the fear of the outside world.
Published in 2023; category Literature and Fiction.
For those seeking a reading with an unsettling atmosphere, family secrets, and a female protagonist fighting to protect her loved ones.
Véronique Ovaldé is a French novelist. Her fifth novel Et mon cœur transparent won the Prix France Culture/Télérama in 2008. Her seventh novel Ce que je sais de Vera Candida won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens (2009), the Prix France Télévisions (2009) and the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle (2010). She has had two books translated into English by Adriana Hunter, but Ovaldé's other titles are still available for interested publishers and translators. In 2024, she published A nos vies imparfaites which received the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.
